Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.0.35)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005056
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Jun 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jun 2012

CVE-2011-2494  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.0.35 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure kernel/taskstats.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive I/O statistics by sending taskstats commands to a netlink socket, as demonstrated by discovering the length of another user's password.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1